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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by UncleMeat »

pdimitar wrote: post #305
UncleMeat wrote: post #294

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The "special treatment" includes: 1. Antidiscrimination policies preventing trans people from being evicted from their home, fired, etc, for being trans. 2. The elimination of policies that prevent or seriously limit access to medical treatment recommended by professional physicians. 3. Basic politeness from peers and colleagues, who should use a trans person's preferred pronouns and name. None of these things are ac…

> The "special treatment" includes: Sure, I never said a-holes don't exist. Sadly they do. My main point is that most common folk is tolerant (even supportive) but that the LGBT group makes enemies out of the common people by blaming them for their plight. And that they go overboard by demanding unreasonable things: like "call me ze/zir". Also maybe the fact that having LGBT lessons in school is a tad too much. Most…

> Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually.

People have been peddling this for ages. Surely there'd be some respected research to back it up. First it was "talking about gay people will turn your kids gay." Now it is "talking about trans people will turn your kids trans." It is just the satanic panic for frightened parents. Equally as stupid as "Mortal Kombat will turn your kids into killers." So let me be very clear. Refusing to speak about the existence of LGBT people in school because of an unsubstantiated belief that it will trick children into not being cishet is a problem. Asking for extremely basic recognition in ordinary life is not an "unreasonable thing."

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by pdimitar »

UncleMeat wrote: post #331
pdimitar wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The "special treatment" includes: Sure, I never said a-holes don't exist. Sadly they do. My main point is that most common folk is tolerant (even supportive) but that the LGBT group makes enemies out of the common people by blaming them for their plight. And that they go overboard by demanding unreasonable things: like "call me ze/zir". Also maybe the fact that having LGBT lessons in school is a tad too much. Most…

> Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually. People have been peddling this for ages. Surely there'd be some respected research to back it up. First it was "talking about gay people will turn your kids gay." Now it is "talking about trans people will turn your kids trans." It is just the satanic p…

Or maybe the LGBT people need to cite proper research before bringing these classes to school? You know, with a proper process and peer reviews and all the good stuff.

Nobody should get a free pass to put any new classes to school before they prove a benefit.

The burden of proof should fall to them, not on me who's skeptical.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by mgdlbp »

mgdlbp wrote: post #309
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #85

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Funny - I find Netflix content keeps getting better. Dark, Ozark, Unorthodox, Russian Doll, Sense8, Love Sex & Robots, The OA. Not as good as HBO - but honestly it seems close. If anything - HBO's content seems to be on the decline more than Netflix. It's still top notch, but it used to be outstanding. Netflix is really mastering the wide appeal & good enough content: 13 Reasons Why, Elite, Bridgerton, Bird Box, etc.…

Feels like (IME) there's a rather high incidence of discontent over decisions "from above" among the shows listed: The OA being cancelled, 13 Reasons having three seasons too many, speculation(?) that Dark 's wonky pacing at the end was due to being approved for too limiting a number of episodes...

(Can't edit) Ah, how did I forget, in this context, about the suicide being censored out of the first season of 13 Reasons Why, years after its release?[1]

That was along with the addition of 1) a disclaimer in the form of the actors talking directly to the viewer before the first episode and 2) an intertitle after every episode reminding of it, again with narration from the actors. 3) Trigger warnings before episodes were also added, but to no surprise at this point. What I certainly haven't seen before is such mutilation of a work as accompanying it with material so expressly immersion-breaking!

A song in the soundtrack was also replaced for reasons unknown, but I suppose that falls more into the general topic of silent alterations to published media that online consumption facilitates, an entire discussion to be had on its own.

[1] https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=378736

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by [deleted] »

pdimitar wrote: post #305
UncleMeat wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The "special treatment" includes: 1. Antidiscrimination policies preventing trans people from being evicted from their home, fired, etc, for being trans. 2. The elimination of policies that prevent or seriously limit access to medical treatment recommended by professional physicians. 3. Basic politeness from peers and colleagues, who should use a trans person's preferred pronouns and name. None of these things are ac…

> The "special treatment" includes: Sure, I never said a-holes don't exist. Sadly they do. My main point is that most common folk is tolerant (even supportive) but that the LGBT group makes enemies out of the common people by blaming them for their plight. And that they go overboard by demanding unreasonable things: like "call me ze/zir". Also maybe the fact that having LGBT lessons in school is a tad too much. Most…

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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by badwolf »

gnlad wrote: post #135
thomasfedb wrote: post #119

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The main point being raised by trans activists is "please let us live our lives and not be horrible to us". There's really not a whole lot more to it than that. So if somebody's "pushing back" on that, I think it's pretty fair to call them transphobic.

There is a lot more. You are forced to list pronouns, declare your gender at conferences, read daily articles about trans people in all major newspapers. Prospective Supreme court justices have to delegate the definition of "woman" to a biologist. And you'll be called transphobic at the slightest infraction of the ever growing set of rules. The whole rainbow movement exists to gain positions, money and power and to h…

When exactly have you been forced to list your pronouns?

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by Ekaros »

UncleMeat wrote: post #331
pdimitar wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The "special treatment" includes: Sure, I never said a-holes don't exist. Sadly they do. My main point is that most common folk is tolerant (even supportive) but that the LGBT group makes enemies out of the common people by blaming them for their plight. And that they go overboard by demanding unreasonable things: like "call me ze/zir". Also maybe the fact that having LGBT lessons in school is a tad too much. Most…

> Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually. People have been peddling this for ages. Surely there'd be some respected research to back it up. First it was "talking about gay people will turn your kids gay." Now it is "talking about trans people will turn your kids trans." It is just the satanic p…

Or maybe the messaging shown currently indicates that what they would teach is that being cis-het is a problem. Or being white. Or being male. And you should die if you are some combination or at least all of you should be killed.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by UncleMeat »

Ekaros wrote: post #337
UncleMeat wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually. People have been peddling this for ages. Surely there'd be some respected research to back it up. First it was "talking about gay people will turn your kids gay." Now it is "talking about trans people will turn your kids trans." It is just the satanic p…

Or maybe the messaging shown currently indicates that what they would teach is that being cis-het is a problem. Or being white. Or being male. And you should die if you are some combination or at least all of you should be killed.

So let's see it. Middle school curricula that says that straight, cis, white, males should be killed. Because what I see here is an incredible overreaction used to justify actual public policy that harms transgender people by denying them access to medical care.

Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by UncleMeat »

pdimitar wrote: post #332
UncleMeat wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Most kids are impressionable and these "lessons" might have the exactly opposite effect: turn kids into LGBT people before they even discovered themselves sexually. People have been peddling this for ages. Surely there'd be some respected research to back it up. First it was "talking about gay people will turn your kids gay." Now it is "talking about trans people will turn your kids trans." It is just the satanic p…

Or maybe the LGBT people need to cite proper research before bringing these classes to school? You know, with a proper process and peer reviews and all the good stuff. Nobody should get a free pass to put any new classes to school before they prove a benefit. The burden of proof should fall to them, not on me who's skeptical.

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Re: Netflix to Employees: If you don't like our content, you can quit

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Post by antifa »

virgildotcodes wrote: post #330
flavius29663 wrote: post #283

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If my math is not wrong, the murder rate for trans people is actually lower than the general population https://www.hrc.org/resources/fatal-violence-against-the-tra... https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-kno... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5227946/

I mean, if you want to give his point a generous interpretation, replace murder with bullying/alienation/etc. Seems rational that in a less hostile environment, a greater percentage of LGBTQ people would feel more comfortable exploring their sexuality and coming out as such.

> if you want to give his point a generous interpretation

No need to be generous, it's a centuries long historic fact.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_against_LGBT_people

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